Onderzoek Britse overheid: dwangarbeid helpt werklozen niet aan regulier werk
Despite Osborne’s “something-for-nothing” rhetoric, employment minister Esther McVey insisted on the Today programme this morning that the scheme was not about “punishment” but about “getting people into work and fulfilling their potential”. Yet even if we take her rhetoric at face value, how helpful is Help to Work likely to be? Judging by the DWP’s pilot (the results of which, as Jonathan Portes notes, it has avoided publicising), the answer is “not very”. The department took 15,000 claimants and placed them in either the jobcentre programme, the community work scheme, or a control group. At the end of the pilot, it found that the same number in the control group (18 per cent) found employment as those doing workfare and that just 1 per cent more of those receiving jobcentre support did. In other words, Help to Work made almost no difference. Yet despite this, the government has proceeded to extend the £300m programme nationwide without any cost-benefit analysis. It is another triumph of politics over policy.
George Eaton in The coalition’s “Help to Work” won’t help the jobless (NewStatesman)
En die zelfde cijfers zien we hier ook. Maar heel weinig mensen vinden of krijgen werk via een traject en na het einde van zo’n traject blijven de mensen gewoon in de uitkering. Hier word verschrikkelijk veel belasting geld verspilt.
Gratis werknemers zonder rechten en daarmee een vernieling van de reguliere arbeids markt en lonen, Dat is waar het om gaat.